But, I'm telling y'all now. I just had a total knee replacement of my left knee today. Surgery started about 5 hours ago and I am up in my hospital room now. I have chased my husband out for the day - he has had nothing to eat yet - and am now amusing myself on my tablet.

They fussed at me in recovery for moving my knee too much. I was sliding my foot toward my butt, waving bye bye with both feet and lifting feet up with a straight knee.

I'm supposed to only eat soup this evening, but I plan to talk the nurse into solid food, since I have a cast iron stomach. Once I ate a really gooey pizza and went across the path from the restaurant to ride a roller coaster which kept me upside down for a good portion of the ride, and whipped me around good for the rest of the time. My stomach was just peachy keen.

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer..Albert Camus

***Used to be hit-by-a-train***
Remarried 2/14/14

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SoHappyNow♀ 8923Member # 8923

Posted: 8:59 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014

No comments? {slight pouty face}

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer..Albert Camus

***Used to be hit-by-a-train***
Remarried 2/14/14

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MovingUpward♂ 14866Member # 14866

Posted: 9:33 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014

So how are you doing this evening? Did you attempt solid food? How is the pain?

I hope you recover quickly.

AKA Moo

Think of the haters in your life as sandpaper; they’ll scratch you up time and time again but in the end you’re polished, smooth, and spotless..while they end up useless

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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jo2love♀ 31528Member # 31528

Posted: 9:49 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014

(((hit)))

I hope you feel better and recovery quickly. Sending mojo and good thoughts.

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Rainbows♀ 39362Member # 39362

Posted: 9:58 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014

(((hit-by-a-train)))

Hope you have a speedy recovery and are up and about soon!

Maybe you can talk the nurse into sneaking some yummy snacks.

There is always a rainbow after every storm.

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heartbroken_kk♀ 22722Member # 22722

Posted: 10:00 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014

We know you are fine!!!!!

tough lady. Hope they are bringing you all the yummy post-surgery sustenance you can stomach!

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." - Buddha

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thebighurt♀ 34722Member # 34722

Posted: 11:11 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014

Hope the good news continues and you amaze them all. If anything, it sounds like your problem with it might be wearing it out too fast!

Finding what life could have been....... Why didn't I see it?

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TrustNoOne♀ 16591Member # 16591

Posted: 11:26 PM, March 26th (Wednesday), 2014

I think the pain meds are working effectively :D

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little turtle♀ 15584Member # 15584

Posted: 9:00 AM, March 27th (Thursday), 2014

Hope you have a speedy recovery!!

Failure is success if we learn from it.

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SoHappyNow♀ 8923Member # 8923

Posted: 9:23 AM, March 27th (Thursday), 2014

TrustnoOne......I am getting some GOOD drugs!

I had solid food last night- very tasty - with no problems! And I took my first walk this morning which went quite smoothly with manageable pain (the physical therapist was telling the physicians assistant to my surgeon "The femoral block has worn off and look how well she's doing!"

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer..Albert Camus

***Used to be hit-by-a-train***
Remarried 2/14/14

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InnerLight♀ 19946Member # 19946

Posted: 9:24 AM, March 27th (Thursday), 2014

Ouch!
I hope you recover fast and well!

BS, now age 54, d-day 6-2-08, divorced after 17 years M and 20 together. In some ways I have not 'gotten over it'. But I am resilient and have created a good life where I am mostly happy.

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InnerLight♀ 19946Member # 19946

Posted: 9:25 AM, March 27th (Thursday), 2014

Ouch!
I hope you recover fast and well!

BS, now age 54, d-day 6-2-08, divorced after 17 years M and 20 together. In some ways I have not 'gotten over it'. But I am resilient and have created a good life where I am mostly happy.

Posts: 6107 | Registered: Jun 2008 | From: Rural California

better4me♀ 30341Member # 30341

Posted: 12:24 PM, March 27th (Thursday), 2014

you are a trooper extraordinaire!

DDay 11/17/2010 BW:53
Divorced

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Threnody♀ 1558Member # 1558

Posted: 4:08 PM, March 27th (Thursday), 2014

I make it a point to piss my nurses off. Okay, not really. It just kind of happens. I don't take the full (or any) pain dose and I get up and move around as soon as possible (i.e., taking a shower within 10 hours of a C-section... twice. I'm really good at showering with my arm sticking out so I don't get the IV wet.)

I hope you're doing well, and I hope you got the solid food you wanted. That was the best part for me -- I could get rice pudding or grits without having to make it, and I could order double! "Gee, I usually get a salad, but since you want me to eat softer foods..."